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by nokcha 5y ago
> I mean, we've entered an age, where a farmer can't milk their cows, if the software of the milking robot has a hitch - can't plow their fields, when the gps-software that drives the tractor isn't working. Seems like
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The Reverse Spiderman Principle: With Great Responsibility Comes Great Power(reason.com)
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by nokcha 5y ago
Looks like bleach (sodium hypochlorite) plus autoclaving is a method recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), for whatever that's worth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion#Sterilization
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by nokcha 5y ago
>Sometimes I can’t even abort the program with Carl+C or D after the error has occurred, and I have to close the terminal In my experience, whenever Ctrl+C doesn't work, LaTeX can be terminated by pressing the X key and then Enter.
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Omicron variant accounts for 73 percent of new Covid cases in U.S.(nbcnews.com)
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by nokcha 5y ago
> Usually speed controls aren't fine-grained enough to allow 1.7x On most sites, you can set an arbitrary speed by executing a line of JavaScript in the debug console: document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = 1
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A snort or a jab? Potential benefits of intranasal Covid-19 vaccines(statnews.com)
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by nokcha 5y ago
>This type of speech is already highly regulated, Commercial speech (e.g., advertising) about drugs is highly regulated, but speech of ordinary citizens (who don't have a financial interest in the drugs being discussed) isn't r
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by nokcha 5y ago
That study turned out to be based on unreliable self-reported education level: https://coronavirus.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-PhDs-are-the-m...
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by nokcha 5y ago
> Under the new TX law, Apple would be exposed to liability for flying employees out for abortion. Apple can say they don't ask employees on their medical details, but it is a risky play. The statute is blatantly unconstitutional, a
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by nokcha 5y ago
From https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21060628/epic-apple-i... : >If any part of this Order is violated by any party named herein or any other person, plaintiff may, by motion with notice to the attorneys
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by nokcha 5y ago
There are also KN95 masks with headband straps instead of earloop straps. E.g., a web search for "Powecom KN95 Respirator Headband Style".
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by nokcha 5y ago
>Isn't this called gain of function research? No. They are not inducing mutation in the virus; they are merely culturing the virus so they have controlled samples. Young healthy human subjects are then intentionally exposed to the
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New film on “the first female Pinkerton detective” being produced for Amazon(avclub.com)
1 points by nokcha 5y ago|1 comments
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by nokcha 5y ago
Two points: 1. The fact that the vaccine only has "emergency-use authorization" rather than full FDA approval is best explained by the fact that the FDA is a dysfunctional bureaucracy motivated primarily by CYA rather than rationa
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by nokcha 5y ago
Interesting! Are you planning to market your product(s) as a drug, a supplement (or other less-regulated category), or both? (E.g., some fish oil is marketed as a supplement, while other fish oil is marketed as an FDA-approved drug [1].)
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by nokcha 5y ago
From the abstract: "We propose this hypothesis based on two recent bodies of published reports – (1) those that provide evidence for the spread of antibiotics into the American food chain, and (2) those that examine the relationship be
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Obesity in the US – dysbiosis from exposure to low-dose antibiotics? (2013)(frontiersin.org)
2 points by nokcha 5y ago|1 comments
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by nokcha 5y ago
I'm not sure what you're saying -- are you saying that I inaccurately stated the experimental results of the study, or are you disputing their clinical relevance? I didn't really make any claims about the clinical relevance
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by nokcha 5y ago
>That's not what this says I admit I'm not medically trained, but the graph [1] seems pretty clear to me, and the authors said: > In contrast, participants with SARS-CoV-2 antibodies at baseline before the first vaccine inje
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by nokcha 5y ago
> Could someone elaborate why this particular comment is being downvoted? My guess would be that commenter doesn't provide any evidence to support his/her claim. (I didn't downvote it, BTW.)
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by nokcha 5y ago
>a study of 52,238 patients showing zero incremental benefit from the jab to the previously infected This study ended May 15, 2021, and it notes that: >Lastly, it is necessary to emphasize that these findings are based on the prevaili
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by nokcha 5y ago
>There have been separate rulings dealing with whether or not employees can use corporate equipment for personal reasons. Such rulings are about different laws. The government's interpretation would criminalize violating a protecte
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by nokcha 5y ago
That rule would greatly discourage publishers from accepting works from authors who are near death. And it would also be impossible to enforce for anonymous or pseudonymous authors. I think a fixed term term of copyright, like 20 or 30 ye
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by nokcha 5y ago
>The workers at the lab "were tested and there was no evidence found of Covid antibodies." Tested by whom and how? If a trustworthy disinterested party positively identified the workers, took their blood samples, and tested th
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by nokcha 5y ago
The article says: ‘"the U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common
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by nokcha 6y ago
If it was objectively clear that it was just a joke, it would probably qualify as protected speech under the First Amendment and thus be immune to SEC penalties.
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by nokcha 6y ago
>The 2015 San Bernardino Shooting, the Sandy Hook shooting, and the Orlando nightclub shooting all involved light, tactical rifles with pistol-grips. Stephen Paddock had 21 pistol-grip rifles, and not a single Mini-14. The Mini-14 has al
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by nokcha 6y ago
>The original FAWB proposals targeted all semi-automatic rifles with detachable clips. OK, I agree with you that such a proposal makes sense conceptually. (But I would still oppose it on the grounds that it offends the Second Amendment.
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by nokcha 6y ago
I initially thought that a ban on 'assault weapons' might make sense, but after learning more about firearms technology, I've come to the conclusion that 'assault weapons' just doesn't make sense as a legal cla

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